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6272. Ronnie Milsap - Let's Take the Long Way Around the World

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From: Only One Love In My Life ; Year: 1978; Genre: Country/Rock/Pop Ronnie Milsap was one whose music I was very well introduced to early on and one I still appreciate a lot. Most of the songs on this album in particular I remember quite well, so I wouldn't be surprised if my Mom and Dad had it, but this track is probably my personal favourite. Wot I have always really liked about country/western music trough the '70s and early '80s in particular is how it had a crossover appeal with other forms of popular music as well as being the last era without that hideous and annoying, exaggerated vocal "twang" that, since the late '80s on has inundated the genre worse than autotune has permeated pop music for over two decades now. How do I miss when new country and western music vocalists could just sing how they would normally....   Hear Let's Take the Long Way Around the World on YouTube.       My song pick 1 year ago today: The Temptations - Smiling Faces Som...

3233. Ronnie Milsap - Daydreams About Night Things

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From: Night Things ; Year: 1975; Genre: Country I have no idea why I'm picking this one other than the fact it was running through my mind at the time I'm making this post. It's not a bad song or anything like that; it's kinda sappy and light hearted, but we all need some of it from time to time. Boy, I heard this song a lot growing up and into adolescence; probably why it got stuck in my mind. Hear Daydreams About Night Things on YouTube. My song pick one year ago today: George Duke - Reach For It My song pick two years ago today: Rush - The Camera Eye My song pick three years ago today: Hawkind - Dying Seas My song pick four years ago today: Quasar - Mission 14 My song pick five years ago today: Derek and the Dominoes - Key to the Highway My song pick six years ago today: David Bowie - All The Madmen My song pick seven years ago today: Rush - Finding My Way My song pick eight years ago today: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Long As I Can ...

Song 69 ( Ronnie Milsap - Smokey Mountain Rain )

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Continuing my truck driving song week, I decided on Smokey Mountain Rain by Ronnie Milsap. A very good song about being on the road away from your love and the person in the song is trying to find her after she had left. The verses are very low key and smooth but what really is excellent about this song is the chorus. This song has two really prominent hooks: the transition between the verse and chorus and the low notes in the chorus on the piano to signify thunder. Oddly enough, that "thunder" was Elvis Presley's doing. I heard in an interview with Ronnie Milsap that the idea came when playing piano with Elvis on the song Kentucky Rain that Elvis told him to make some thunder on the lower keys; he decided to put it into this song as well. Hear Smokey Mountain Rain on YouTube. Here is a live performance on YouTube. +